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So myself and the roommate are testing lists for a Killteam tournament and his list mainly consists of khorne berzerkers - my question is how does their ability to fight twice interact with decisive strike and charging? Can you use decisive strike to fight first, then immediately activate that same model again since it charged?

For example: He charged an ork boy and a nob with his berzerker champ and made it into combat with both. Once we get to melee phase he uses decisive strike to fight with that berzerker first - his first fight takes the ork boy out of action, he then activates it again and fights the nob which also takes it out of action.

It seems screwy to me but I am biased since he did that to me every fight phase and it created a bit of salt tbh.

In you example yes he can do that just because he charged.

in KT there is an alternative order for resolving both the shooting and fight phase.

1st Resolve readied models or models who made a sucessfull charge
2nd resolve normal shooting or fight starting with the player who currently has the initiative.

3 if Decisive Strike Stratagem is used it allows a player to choose a model and resolve it's attack before the models who charged or readied.

In fact if he was the player with the Initiative he could just charge resolve his attacks first then select it a second time to fight against since he has again to select such model without any need to use the Decisive strike stratagem, or you could use the same Stratagem to attack the berserk before he can resolve his 2 activations.

Page 34 says that "No model can be chosen to fight more than once in a Fight phase." Was that FAQ'ed to no longer be the case?

I ask because the game also says you can't shoot if you're within 1" of an enemy model. Then it later says you can if it's a pistol. Or flesh hooks if your a 'nid, etc.

 privateer4hire wrote:
Page 34 says that "No model can be chosen to fight more than once in a Fight phase." Was that FAQ'ed to no longer be the case?

I ask because the game also says you can't shoot if you're within 1" of an enemy model. Then it later says you can if it's a pistol. Or flesh hooks if your a 'nid, etc.

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A model or a tactic can have a rule that breaks existing rules.>

Did a little more digging since even at 2 CP that's a lot of power.
The designers specifically address Decisive Strike and Decisive Shot on page 4 of their commentary.

TLDR players can't have the same model shoot twice or fight twice using Tactics.

https://www.warhammer-community.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/kill_team_designers_commentary_en.pdf

No, but Khorne Berzerkers are elites with a special rule letting them fight twice in a round.

Understood. Didn't know they had a specifically written ability/rule that allowed them to get around that. Thanks.

If the zerker charges then it will fight twice in the hammer of wrath phase so he didn't even need to use the tactic to fight twice before your boy or nob could swing.

Example - berzerker charged, there's no other combat.

Chaos player has initiative:
Hammer of wrath
Zerker fights
Other player passes (no eligible models)
Zerker fights
Fight for your lives
Zerker player passes (no eligible models)
Other player's model fights

Other player has initiative:
Hammer of wrath
Other player passes
Zerker fights
Other player passes
Zerker fights
Fight for your lives
Other player fights

Same result.

If you also have chargers and he has initiative then he can use decisive strike to fight twice before you fight.